Caribbean TradeBeat
Caribbean TradeBeat - the radio magazine - from the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery - aims to make the business of Caribbean trade talks your business. Caribbean TradeBeat keeps you informed and involved, as the CRNM works in the region's main negotiating theatres – from bilateral agreements to the global trade accord governed by the World Trade Organisation, the current Doha round. Hear the voices of the region's business community on how they meet the successes - or challenges - of global free trade and find more on how businesses, large or small, can help forge trade deals for the benefit of the Caribbean private sector - from securing better market access to developing innovative, sunrise industries and services. Write to Caribbean TradeBeat at privatesector@crnm.org. Produced by the CRNM with support from the Multilateral Investment Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank. Presented by Julius Gittens.
#66. View from a boot camp recruit
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As CARICOM's trade negotiators reach out to exporters across the region, one of the 'recruits' at a recent CRNM trade negotiations boot camp has his say. Patrick Ryan of the Antigua and Barbuda Business Alliance who was pleasantly surprised by the revelations about what's at stake and opportunities through proposed trade agreements now being negotiated on behalf of the region. TradeSpeak explains reciprocity.
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Friday, Feb 16, 2007#65. Exporters go to boot camp
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The CRNM's private sector outreach now takes the form of what's being called a trade negotiations boot camp. A friendly but tough 'drill sargeant' - Lincoln Price, the CRNM's private sector liaison - speaks on this new approach to making sure that the Caribbean exporters get real day-to-day value for time spent with the region's trade negotiators. TradeSpeak explains the grandfather clause.
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Friday, Feb 09, 2007#64. Aid for trade (part one)
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An old hand at trade negotiations for the Eastern Caribbean States, Ambassador Edwin Laurent has been working on advancing thought and work on the concept of "aid for trade". What's in it for developing countries like those in the Caribbean and is aid for trade a hand up to the region to be internationally competitive or merely a handout? Part one of two. TradeSpeak goes to arbitration....
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Friday, Feb 02, 2007#63. Free trade, free flow in OECS
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Whether it's a guitar for a leading regional jazz musician or a food dye for a drinks factory, trade facilitation is about easing the procedures involved in importing inputs and exporting finished products. The CRNM trade advisor to the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), Claudius Preville, discusses how customs officers in the nine-member grouping are take steps to move from mere revenue protection and law enforcement to trade facilitation in order to boost exports - through technology, training and new attitudes. TradeSpeak explains yet another specific limitation on trade - licensing.
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